Isn't
it worth reflecting on the fact that God gave the people 125 years to
repent while Noah was building the ark. Imagine what the community
would be saying?
What
if God gave them only 24 hours? Would that be reasonable?
From
time to time I have to remind myself of the character of God and the
patience of God and remember – He is slow to anger, abounding in
love and rich in mercy.
Boy
oh boy, am I impatient and so is humanity.
And
God waits and waits and waits. The Father waits on the steps of the
verandah, for us to repent and come home.
The
irony is: one person shouts: “Hurry up God and fix this problem”
under the same breath the intended recipient of that prayer counters
saying: “Dear God, please slow down this problem”.
Romans
1
16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God
that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew,
then to the Gentile. 17 For in the gospel the righteousness of God
is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to
last,[e] just as it is written: “The righteous will live by
faith.”[f]
God’s
Wrath Against Sinful Humanity
18
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the
godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their
wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them,
because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of
the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine
nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been
made, so that people are without excuse.
21
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor
gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their
foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise,
they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for
images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals
and reptiles.
24
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to
sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and
served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever
praised. Amen.
2
Kings
21
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in
Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother’s name was Hephzibah. 2 He
did evil in the eyes of the Lord, following the detestable practices
of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites. 3 He
rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he also
erected altars to Baal and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of
Israel had done. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped
them. 4 He built altars in the temple of the Lord, of which the Lord
had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my Name.” 5 In the two courts
of the temple of the Lord, he built altars to all the starry hosts. 6
He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced divination, sought
omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the
eyes of the Lord, arousing his anger.
Judges
9
9
Abimelek son of Jerub-Baal went to his mother’s brothers in Shechem
and said to them and to all his mother’s clan, 2 “Ask all the
citizens of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you: to have all seventy
of Jerub-Baal’s sons rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember, I
am your flesh and blood.”
3
When the brothers repeated all this to the citizens of Shechem, they
were inclined to follow Abimelek, for they said, “He is related to
us.” 4 They gave him seventy shekels[a] of silver from the temple
of Baal-Berith, and Abimelek used it to hire reckless scoundrels, who
became his followers. 5 He went to his father’s home in Ophrah and
on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerub-Baal.
But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerub-Baal, escaped by hiding.
Matthew
2:
16
When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was
furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its
vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the
time he had learned from the Magi. 17 Then what was said through the
prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:
18
“A voice is heard in Ramah,
weeping
and great mourning,
Rachel
weeping for her children
and
refusing to be comforted,
because
they are no more.”[d]
2
Kings 15
16
At that time Menahem, starting out from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and
everyone in the city and its vicinity, because they refused to open
their gates. He sacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant
women.
Menahem
King of Israel
17
In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem son of
Gadi became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria ten years. 18
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord. During his entire reign he did
not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had
caused Israel to commit.
Other
sources:
http://www.evidenceunseen.com/what-about-the-canaanite-genocide/
